Ah, well I'd rather it stay as is. The Khalifate era is not fully ready for 
mainline default; it needs more anims and more play testing for balancing. I 
think it should be added as part of the stable version for another cycle before 
its ready to be considered our best era. Does that make sense? 




On 2014-02-03, at 9:45 AM, chris beck <[email protected]> wrote:

> 1) Maybe instead of Classic we could have Default minus Khalifate? Or you 
> could just call it "Old Default".
> 
> 2) I think it would be nice also if the stated goal of the tournament 
> tournament is not just balancing Khalifate but also improving the balance of 
> Default era generally. I'm not an MP expert personally but having been around 
> for a bit, specced my share of ladder games and spoken to some top tier 
> players, I think one could argue that Knalgan vs Undead, particularly on a 
> map like Sulla's ruins, is not significantly more balanced than the matchups 
> with Khalifate right now.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Noy <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd rather it stay as Default + Khalifate for the time being. Its really a 
> new test era and changing its name to something that doesn't describe what it 
> is will likely confuse players. Compounding that issue is that its not 
> "classic" at all. Maybe for the subsequent stable we can change it, but 
> really, not at this stage.
> 
> 
> On 2014-02-03, at 9:11 AM, Nils Kneuper <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
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> > Hi folks!
> > During dinner at FOSDEM 2014 we also discussed the topic of content which is
> > new and unlikely to be much tested before the version is finally stable. We
> > had problems with those "load tests" before (e.g. with the multiplayer 
> > lobby).
> > Right now we might be facing an "issue" like this with the new race 
> > Khalifate.
> > The current setup is as follows:
> >
> > * Default
> > * Age of Heroes
> > * Default + Khalifate
> > * Age of Heroes + Khalifate
> >
> > I fear that not many people will use the "+ Khalifate" eras until the 
> > release
> > is out and we get the complaints about them being unbalanced. At that time 
> > it
> > is too late though due to our "(mp) compatibility" policy for stable series.
> > Because of this I propose that we encourage the testing using two simple 
> > steps:
> >
> > 1) Naming changes.
> > 2) Have some tournament(s) shortly after a new release which is centered
> > around testing with/against the new faction.
> >
> > Re 1):
> > What do you think of the following names?
> > * Default
> > * Age of Heroes
> > * Classic
> > * Classic Heroes
> >
> > Yes, especially the last one might need some more work. The idea is to have
> > the era with the Khalifate preselected so that we might get some more 
> > testing.
> > Yes, this will also require some slight rewrite of the description but it
> > should not be rocket science, right?
> >
> >
> > Re 2):
> > Is anyone around who could get some small "feedback tournaments" started? I
> > know that parts of our MP community already did lots of work on balancing 
> > the
> > Khalifate, but some more can not hurt, right?
> >
> >
> > Please comment on this mail. If I receive no (negative) comment at all I 
> > will
> > just go ahead and change the names for the next development release which is
> > planned for "very soon".
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic
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